Police have found two children whose mother allegedly refused to give girls to protective services.

Officers said 10-month-old Gisaiah Golder-Mumphrey and 2-year-old Gabriellemarie Gebrselassie's mother lost custody and then refused to tell Hamilton County Job and Family Services where the children were.Officials said the girls' mother, Gwendolyn Golder, was taken into custody and is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center on contempt charges.Investigators said they believed the girls were being taken care of by a friend of her mother's."The police are going to try to determine what happened here in terms of, were the children placed with this person, and he or she did not know that we had custody, and the mother simply asked this person to keep them, or was he or she harboring them," said Brian Gregg, of Job and Family Services.The girls were found safe early Tuesday and have been placed in foster care.Friends said Golder suffers from unspecified mental health issues.She will remain jailed until a June 15 court hearing.